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Oh my goodness that's SO late!! I'm jealous...

Cobi dropped his third nap when he was 4 months old!! He only stays awake for 2 hours in-between his first two naps, but after his second nap he stays awake 3-4 hours to make it until bedtime. He is 8.5 months old.

LO is 6 months and we're mostly at 2 naps. If we're lucky we get a third catnap. I'm not a fan of her having a bedtime earlier than 7-7:30, so we've had some cranky evenings lately.

Our daughter is 7 months, and sometimes (especially at daycare) she only does 2 naps. Sometimes she does 3, and sometimes she does 4. Our daughter also never naps for more than 30 minutes at a time, so basically she is just not a good napper. I am jealous of all of you with nap schedules, b/c we have never been able to achieve one

LO is almost 7 months and she will have 2 naps once in a while. If her second nap ends around 3-3:30, it's hard to get her down for a third nap! Yesterday she woke up at 3:30 from her last nap. I still put her down because she was sleepy and she had some "quiet" time for 20 minutes. I managed to have her stay awake until 6:50pm!

@NerdBee: She used to do that too, but it was only because she wasn't tired. She'll only allow "quiet crib time" if she's tired, but she'll start to fuss and yell for me after 20 minutes or so...for me, that's good enough to tide her over until bedtime. What's LO's max awake time right now?

@NerdBee: Have you ever tried putting him the Ergo/carrier? Sometimes when i know she won't go down for a nap i'll walk around the neighbourhood until she falls asleep and she'll have a short nap in there. That way i can push her bedtime if i know she'll be too tired.

I'm trying to get out of the early wake time situation.....he's up at 5 most days and I put him down at 7 p.m. He takes naps at 6:30 and then roughly every 2 hours thereafter. I'm hoping that some schedule will start to emerge at daycare so that I can get him in a better routine.

@NerdBee: I have the same problem - I want to give my son a 9 a.m. nap, but it only works if he wakes at 7. When he wakes at 5, he is ready fro a nap by 6:30!

@NerdBee: forcing a catnap never worked for us (my LO would fall asleep in the car) because a later bedtime =\= a later wake up. Doing the 3rd catnap with such high waketimes also may cause you to have too much total waketime during the day which may lead to overtiredness. It's tricky stuff!

And yes, I still do a 9:30 nap with a 5:30 wake up. My LO will wake up and play for the first bit then start whining/crying with about 10 minutes to go. But he's all smiles as soon as the lights turn on!

@NerdBee: definitely try and keep him in bed until 6am. That quiet, stimulus-free time in the crib will help him get to a 9am nap if he wakes early. I've also read to aim for 9am and 2pm naps to get to a post-6 bedtime. Good luck!

@Mrs. Yoyo: I can't.wait.for.this.day.to.come. Hahah you know I complain of the 30 minute nap. He's taken some longer naps lately becuase he has been sick, but I'm not holding my breath!

@Mrs. Yoyo: Eeew yikes! Poop is the culprit for many of our wakes, too. He's 6 months next week and I'm just holding my breath! He has taken at least one nap of an hour's length (or more) for the last 10 days. But he's also had a drippy nose that whole time so I'm not sure what to think. Only time will tell ; )

@NerdBee: he does ok at night so i'm just trying to wait it out and see what happens - usually sleeps 7-5 with one wake (or straight through).

@NerdBee: yay!!! That is excellent news!!!! Can your LO have a word with my LO who has been waking up at 5:30 to sit up and stare at the video monitor/camera for the past two mornings?